Chaya is a fully functional HTML5 Web Chat written in Javascript, utilizing Node.js, Socket.io and jQuery.
It's tested in current Webkit (Chrome, Safari) and Firefox desktop browsers. No IE here, sorry guys! ;)
A Chaya instance is hosted on Heroku.
Feel free to join, you're welcome! :)
It's quite simple and totally free:
- Fork Chaya
- Install Node.js and NPM
- Install Heroku Toolbelt
- Push your chaya fork to another heroku project
- Have a blast!
- add persistence for latest chat messages
- add avatar images, e.g. from twitter or gravatar
- filter markup syntax, prevent XSS =)
- add other cool stuff
Chaya is published under MIT license. Feel free to fork and modify by your needs.